Far-right parties have been increasingly spreading throughout Europe since 1980s; they have attracted the attention of many voters, especially the youth and the workers by campaigning against immigration and multiculturalism. Through an anti-establishment approach, these parties have become mainly mistrustful of the mainstream politics articulating themselves as the true voice of the people and...

In this study we apply classification methods for detecting subdialectal differences in Sorani Kurdish texts produced in different regions, namely Iran and Iraq. As Sorani is a low-resource language, no corpus including texts from different regions was readily available. To this end, we identified data sources that could be leveraged for this task to create a dataset of 200,000 sentences. Using...

Learner autonomy has become the area of interest by many researchers of foreign language learning in the recent years. However, few studies have been done concerning the case of Kurdish learners` autonomy in learning languages. For this reason, the current study addresses this gap. It intends to investigate to what extent Kurdish learners are autonomous in learning English language. The study i...

Aim:This study was aimed to explore and describe the Kurdish women's perception of cervical cancer screening. Methods: A qualitative design based on a conventional content analysis approach. Purposive sampling was applied to 19 women chosen, who had a Pap smear or refused to have one. The study was performed in the Kurdistan Region, Iraq. Semi-structure din-depth individual interviews were carr...

© 2004 Society of Rural Physicians of Canada 178 O n March 16, 1988, Saddam Hussein attacked his own people, blanketing them with deadly chemicals, cluster bombs and artillery fire. Five thousand Kurdish residents of Halabja, a rural community in northern Iraq, died that day, in the largest recorded chemical warfare incident in history. In November 2003, a 4-person rural medical education team ...

Passivization is the grammatical process in which structures of whole sentence, and specifically verb phrase, change. This one main syntactic needs any academic writing. Therefore, English learner to know enough about it by end undergraduate studies. paper, being an empirical one, tests Kurdish learners’ awareness providing instrument. The data scope study are sentences from Kurdish. A cohort e...

objectives: it has been noted that stuttering is more prevalent in bilinguals than in monolinguals. the similarities of the languages involved have been mentioned to justify the difference between stuttering prevalence among bilingual and monolingual speakers. the aim of this study is to investigate the effect of language similarities on prevalence of stuttering among kurdish-farsi bilingual st...